Taylor Shared the Hardships of Cave Exploration
“We lay 1,200 feet, more or less, beneath the desert, down countless rope pitches and miles of tortuous passage from the single entrance to Lechuguilla Cave,” Taylor shared on the PBS website. “The cave’s constant humidity, which had kept us sweating for hours as we made our difficult way down, now leached away warmth. We stank of the day’s work, our funk blending with Lech’s peculiar soil-and-metal odor.”